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© DR -NOBODYS FOOL (Un homme presque parfait) -1994 p5
29/10/2012 07:20
Fiche technique
Titre : Un homme presque parfait
Titre original : Nobody's Fool
Réalisation : Robert Benton
Scénario : Robert Benton d'après
le roman du mm nom de Richard Russo
Production : Arlene Donovan,
Michael Hausman et Scott Rudin
Musique : Howard Shore
Photographie : John Bailey
Montage : John Bloom
Sociétés de distribution : Paramount Pictures (USA) ;
Capella International (hors États-Unis) ;
Twentieth Century Fox(Royaume-Uni)
Pays d'origine : États-Unis
Format : Couleurs - 1,85:1
Genre : Comédie Dramatique
Langue : anglais
Durée : 110 minutes (1 h 50)
Date de sortie : 23 décembre 1994
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No Fooling Around.
Author: tfrizzell from United States
4 August 2002
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Paul Newman's (Oscar-nominated) amazing performance as a small-town man who tries to bring his somewhat meaningless life together is a real triumph in this fine motion picture from director Robert Benton. Newman is exploited throughout by boss Bruce Willis, but takes it all in stride as he flirts with Willis' beautiful wife (Melanie Griffith).
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When son Dylan Walsh and his family moves back to town, Newman must finally come to terms with his family and take responsibilities that he has ignored for the duration of his life. Jessica Tandy shines in her swan song. A really great homage to Newman, one of Hollywood's very best from any era. 4.5 out of 5 stars.
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Great film, see this one!
What a gem! Apparently this film did have a theatrical run, but I had never heard of it until I saw it on cable a few years ago. Paul Newman was, as always, masterful. So was Jessica Tandy. As unlikeable as Bruce Willis is, he is a great actor and does very well here. And even though it was a fairly small part, I think this is Melanie Griffith's best work ever.(je le pense également) The script, directing, everything came together seamlessly. I highly rcommend this film. Grade: A
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© DR -NOBODYS FOOL (Un homme presque parfait) -1994 p6
29/10/2012 07:26
Alexander Goodwin
Cast
Paul Newman : Sully Sullivan
Jessica Tandy : Beryl Peoples
Bruce Willis : Carl Roebuck
Melanie Griffith : Toby Roebuck
Dylan Walsh : Peter Sullivan
Pruitt Taylor Vince : Rub Squeers
Gene Saks : Wirf Wirfley
Carl J. Matusovich : Wacker Sullivan
Josef Sommer : Clive Peoples Jr.
Philip Seymour Hoffman : Officier Raymer
Philip Bosco : Juge Flatt
Alexander Goodwin : Will Sullivan
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And yet ANOTHER great performance by Paul Newman
Author: blanche-2 from United States
20 January 2008
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Paul Newman is "Nobody's Fool" in this 1994 film also starring Jessica Tandy, Bruce Willis, Melanie Griffith, Dylan Walsh and Philip Seymour Hoffman. Newman magnificently portrays Sully, a 60-year-old man living in a small town in upstate New York. He has a bad knee; he's suing his boss, the hard living Carl Roebuck (Bruce Willis) for back wages; he flirts with the boss' wife Toby (Melanie Griffith); he rents from his old school teacher Beryl Peoples (Jessica Tandy) who depends on him; he plays poker and drinks at the local bar; and he plays the Trifecta every day.
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When his son Peter (Dylan Walsh) comes to town, Sully has to come face to face with the man he abandoned as a child, as well as his ex-wife. (The scene where he sneaks out of her house as everyone screams at each other is a riot.) He gets to know his little grandson, bonding with him as he never did the boy's father. Sully, who in his own way has been taking care of a lot of people in town - and driving some other ones crazy - learns the importance of a family connection and what it entails.
A marvelous script, a marvelous cast, great direction by Robert Benton - "Nobody's Fool" is a small movie with a big message about life. Newman portrays Sully with all of his complexities. He's more a son to Beryl than her own son. He takes care of his workmate Grub (Pruitt Taylor Vance) as he never did his own son. He is there for Toby as she talks about Carl's infidelities, but he was never there for his own wife. What's most wonderful about the script is how character-driven it is and how all its messages come out of the characters. The audience is not beaten over the head with them.
When Sully speaks bitterly about his late father, he turns to Peter and says, "That's what you'll say about me when I'm gone." "You were gone, dad," Peter says. "I've already said it." Yet the two men try, without ever verbalizing that they are trying. He's there for Tandy, without a sentimental scene.Tandy is excellent as a woman who fears the loss of her independence, and fans of Nip/Tuck will get a kick out of seeing Dylan Walsh as he was 14 years ago with his mop of hair. He does very well in his role.
Bruce Willis is amazing - relaxed, funny, cheating with a smile. Philip Seymour Hoffman, before stardom hit, has a hilarious role as a policeman trying to nail Sully and not having much luck.You can't really call what Newman does acting because you won't catch him doing it - he just IS Sully. He creates an unforgettable character in this must-see film.
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© DR -NOBODYS FOOL (Un homme presque parfait) -1994 p7
29/10/2012 07:33
Paul Newman
Je l'ai trouvé bien meilleur que dans COLOUR OF MONEY ,
film dans lequel j'aime surtout Mastrantonio
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why i like it
Author: (fairjumper@yahoo.com) from United States
11 December 2006
I can feel this movie deep inside. It is a reflection of the type of characters I have known and it relates well to real life situations that every working stiff goes through. Newman easily fits the character of Sully. Haven't most people seen these characters in any town anywhere in this country.The production is well performed by all and has good locations. There is just enough humor in it so that it balances the harder things in life.
I can feel this movie deep inside. It is a reflection of the type of characters I have known and it relates well to real life situations that every working stiff goes through. Newman easily fits the character of Sully. Haven't most people seen these characters in any town anywhere in this country.The production is well performed by all and has good locations. There is just enough humor in it so that it balances the harder things in life.
A chance to laugh at frailties and unsung heroes. I get the feeling that I am right there with these guys and would like to cry in my beer with them. It is worth watching over and over and it could almost become a seasonal classic. I have given this movie to friends as a gift and recommend it highly.
Newman's best
Author: Idocamstuf from Greenville, NY
24 December 2002
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This movie has to be Paul Newman's most enjoyable, best acted, and heartwarming movie. Everyone works very well together, and give great performances(with the exception of Melanie Griffith, who thank god only had a small role!). Many heartwarming scenes between Newman and his Grandson. Also some funny moments(especially when Newman kept on steeling Bruce Willis' snowblower. This is a great movie to watch if you like Paul Newman or anyone else in the cast, or just like heartwarming films about family. ****1/2 out of *****
Great Newman acting - solid entertainment
Author: uhu from Zurich, Switzerland
12 January 2003
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Newman is acting just perfectly in this small town movie in his role as a 60 years old man who has not achieved much in his life, but begins to realize this when his son, whom he hasn't seen since he left his family, shows up with his kids, Newman's grandsons. The complicated (or maybe not so complicated) married life of Willis and Griffith add to the plot. Some quite witty scenes and lines make you laugh heartily, although the film's general tone is more on the serious side.
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© DR -NOBODYS FOOL (Un homme presque parfait) -1994 p8
29/10/2012 07:36
Photo du haut l'admirable Jessica Tandy
(COCOON,MISS DAISY & SON CHAUFFEUR etc...)
à qui j'ai décidé de rendre hommage très prochainement.
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Little movie: Big essence of Paul Newman
Author: Brian Wright from United States
8 October 2008
Sure, he's done a lot of other huge movies and lived a full life as a racing driver and a working philanthropist, but to me none of his work in the movies or on stage compares to this perfect swan-song film of 1994, Nobody's Fool. The nice thing about movies is that to appreciate them you only have to receive them: who cares how they come about or who makes it possible? (Tho of course we do care.) What distinguishes Nobody's Fool—not to mention it is literally Jessica Tandy's final film—is how the lead character Donald 'Sully' Sullivan is more like Paul Newman, the real person, than any other he's done (IMHO).For my complete review of this movie and for other movie and book reviews, please visit my site TheCoffeeCoaster.com.
Brian Wright Copyright 2008
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Masterpiece
Author: grandisdavid from washington DC
8 October 2005
Robert Benton has signed another masterpiece with this touching, refined and profound movie. The acting deserves tons of Oscars (Jessica Tandy and Paul Newman are amazing: the latest is acting one of his best roles). The support characters are excellent, so is the beautiful cinematography, the delightful dialogs and the screenplay. You OUGHT to watch this very underrated movie, woefully unknown. There is nothing cheesy about this aging man working on little odd jobs to make a living. He is known and tenderly loved by all his neighbors, even by his enemies. He is not flawless but has got a kind of wisdom through the simplicity of his life and through his attempt to correct the mistakes of his past. The character really grows on you so is this unpretentious art film.
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Unmissable Americana
Author: MidniteRambler from London
8 May 2004
A slice of life from Smalltown, USA, where everyone seems connected to everyone else. Bittersweet and comical in turns with first-rate performances all round, particularly and as usual from Newman, and from Willis, a million country miles from Die Hard and Armageddon. The ensemble cast is top-notch and propel the tale through the ups and downs of Newman's character's attempts to come to terms with - and redeem himself from - a wasted life in which he took no part in the upbringing of his son and in which, we suspect, he flitted from job to job, home to home and woman to woman.
Nobody's Fool is a classic slice of Americana and, in its category, unsurpassed. One of the best films of the nineties and one enjoyable to watch again and again and again, for the acting, for the dialogue and for its warmth. Don't miss this one.
2 out of 3 people found the following review useful:
Standout film in every department
Author: Bjorn (jbjorns) from Iceland
13 December 2005
Nobody's Fool is on par with Terms Of Endearment and Ordinary People as a fantastic human drama but it also has a lighter and irresistible approach that's no less captivating.Paul Newman plays blue-collar working stiff Sully, a man who's not lived much of a life; at least according to his landlady (the always wonderful Jessica Tandy). Having deserted his wife and child as a young man, Sully, in his old age, meets up with his son as a grown man and develops a relationship with him and his grandson in the proceedings. Also we get too see the people in Sully's life; his obnoxious boss (wonderfully played by Bruce Willis), the boss's wife (Melanie Griffith's best ever performance) who Sully is constantly harassing, his landlady and her son, his best pal and and a mean ass dog.
Director Benton gets first rate performances from the entire cast and handles all the proceedings well. The small town atmosphere of Bath, New York, is wonderfully captured and it's one of these small towns you'd just love to live in. The script is expertly written and has unique and wonderful characters, multi layered and interesting.Nobody's Fool is a standout film in every department, a perfect example of what a good cast and a good director are capable of pulling off when the material is good.
One of my top 10 films ever. 10 out of 10.
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© DR -NOBODYS FOOL Jessica Tandy - Filmo
29/10/2012 07:41
Jessica Tandy
est une actrice britannique, née le 7 juin 1909 à Londres au Royaume-Uni,
décédée le 11 septembre 1994 à Easton (Connecticut)....(Quoi c'est tout?)
Date of Birth
7 June 1909, Stoke Newington, London, England, UK
Date of Death
11 September 1994, Easton, Connecticut, USA (ovarian cancer)
Birth Name
Jessie Alice Tandy
Height
5' 4" (1.63 m)
Mini Biography
A beloved, twinkly blue-eyed doyenne of stage and screen, actress Jessica Tandy's career spanned nearly six and a half decades. In that course of time, she enjoyed an amazing film renaissance at age 80, something unheard of in a town that worships youth and nubile beauty. She was born Jessie Alice Tandy in London in 1909, the daughter of Harry Tandy, a traveling salesman, and Jessie Helen Horspool. Her parents enrolled her as a teenager at the Ben Greet Academy of Acting where she showed immediate promise. She was 16 when she made her professional bow as Sara Manderson in the play "The Manderson Girls", and was subsequently invited to join the Birmingham Repertory Theatre. Within a couple of years, Jessica was making a number of otherdebuts as well. Her first West End play was in "The Rumour" at the Court Theatre in 1929; her Gotham bow was in "The Matriarch" at the Longacre Theatre in 1930; and her initial film role was as a maid in The Indiscretions of Eve (1932).
Jessica married British actor Jack Hawkins in 1932 after the couple had met performing in the play "Autumn Crocus" the year before. They had one daughter, Susan, before parting ways after eight years of marriage. An unconventional beauty with slightly stern-eyed and sharp, hawkish features, she was passed over for leading lady roles in films, thereby focusing strongly on a transatlantic stage career throughout the 1930s and 1940s. She grew in stature while enacting a succession of Shakespeare's premiere ladies (Titania, Viola, Ophelia, Cordelia). At the same time, she enjoyed personal successes elsewhere in such plays as "French Without Tears", "Honour Thy Father", "Jupiter Laughs", "Anne of England" and "Portrait of a Madonna". And then she gave life to Blanche DuBois.
When Tennessee Williams' masterpiece "A Streetcar Named Desire" opened on Broadway on December 3, 1947, Jessica's name became forever associated with this entrancing Southern belle character. One of the most complex, beautifully drawn, and still sought-after femme parts of all time, she went on to win the coveted Tony award. Aside from introducing Marlon Brando to the general viewing public, "Streetcar" shot Jessica's marquee value up a thousandfold. But not in films.
While her esteemed co-stars Brando, Kim Hunter and Karl Malden were given the luxury of recreating their roles in Elia Kazan's stark, black-and-white cinematic adaptation of Un tramway nommé désir (1951), Jessica was devastatingly bypassed. Vivien Leigh, who played the role on stage in London and had already immortalized another coy, manipulative Southern belle on celluloid (Scarlett O'Hara), was a far more marketable film celebrity at the time and was signed on to play the delusional Blanche. To be fair, Leigh was nothing less than astounding in the role and went on to deservedly win the Academy Award (along with Malden and Hunter). Jessica would exact her revenge on Hollywood in later years.
In 1942, she entered into a second marriage with actor/producer/director Hume Cronyn, a 52-year union that produced two children, Christopher and Tandy, the latter an actor in her own right. The couple not only enjoyed great solo success, they relished performing in each other's company. A few of their resounding theatre triumphs included the "The Fourposter" (1951), "Triple Play" (1959), "Big Fish, Little Fish (1962), "Hamlet" (he played Polonius; she played Gertrude) (1963), "The Three Sisters (1963) and "A Delicate Balance." They supported together in films too, their first being La septième croix (1944). In the film Les vertes années (1946), Jessica, who was two years older than Cronyn, actually played his daughter! Throughout the 1950s, they built up a sturdy reputation as "America's First Couple of the Theatre."
In 1963, Jessica made an isolated film appearance in Alfred Hitchcock's classic Les oiseaux (1963). Low on the pecking order at the time (pun intended), Hitchcock gave Jessica a noticeable secondary role and Jessica made the most of her brittle scenes as the high-strung, overbearing mother of Rod Taylor who witnesses horror along the California coast. It was not until the 1980s that Jessica (and Hume, to a lesser degree) experienced a mammoth comeback in Hollywood.
Alongside Hume she delighted movie audiences in such enjoyable fare as Honky Tonk Freeway (1981), Le monde selon Garp (1982), Cocoon(1985) and Miracle sur la 8ème rue (1987). In 1989, however, octogenarian Jessica was handed the senior citizen role of a lifetime as the prickly Southern Jewish widow who gradually forms a trusting bond with her black chauffeur in the genteel drama Miss Daisy et son chauffeur (1989). Jessica was presented with the Oscar, Golden Globe and British Film Awards, among others, for her exceptional work in the film that also won "Best Picture". Deemed Hollywood royalty now, she was handed the cream of the crop in elderly film parts and went on to win another Oscar nomination for Beignets de tomates vertes (1991) a couple of years later.
Jessica also enjoyed some of her biggest stage hits ("Streetcar" notwithstanding) during her twilight years, earning two more Tony Awards for her exceptional work in "The Gin Game" (1977) and "Foxfire" (1982). Both co-starred her husband Hume and both were beautifully transferred by the couple to television. Diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 1990, Jessica bravely continued working with Emmy-winning distinction on television. She died of her illness on September 11, 1994. Her last two films, Un homme presque parfait (1994) and Camilla (1994), were released posthumously.
IMDb Mini Biography By: Gary Brumburgh / gr-home@pacbell.net
Filmographie
1932 : The Indiscretions of Eve : Maid
1938 : Murder in the Family : Ann Osborne
1938 : Glorious Morning (TV)
1939 : Fiat Justitia (TV)
1939 : Fox in the Morning (TV) : Barbara Scott
1944 : The Seventh Cross : Liesel Roeder
1944 : Blonde Fever : Diner at Inn
1945 : La Vallée du jugement (The Valley of Decision) : Louise Kane
1946 : Les Vertes Années (The Green Years) : Kate Leckie
1946 : Le Château du Dragon (Dragonwyck) : Peggy O'Malley
1947 : Ambre (Forever Amber) : Nan Britton
1948 : A Woman's Vengeance : Janet Spence
1950 : Les Amants de Capri (September Affair) : Catherine Lawrence
1951 : Le Renard du désert (The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel) : Frau Lucie Marie Rommel
1954 : The Marriage (série TV) : Liz Marriott
1957 : Alfred Hitchcock Présente - The Glass Eye (série TV) : Robert Stevens
1958 : The Light in the Forest : Myra Butler
1959 : The Moon and Sixpence (TV) : Blanche Stroeve
1962 : Aventures de jeunesse (Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man) : Mrs. Adams
1963 : Les Oiseaux (The Birds) : Lydia Brenner
1974 : Butley : Edna Shaft
1981 : Honky Tonk Freeway : Carol
1981 : The Gin Game (TV) : Fonsia Dorsey
1982 : Le Monde selon Garp (The World According to Garp) : Mrs. Fields
1982 : La Mort aux enchères (Still of the Night)(?): Grace Rice (j'lai vu mais m'en rappelle plus)
1982 : Best Friends : Eleanor McCullen
1984 : Les Bostoniennes (The Bostonians) : Miss Birdseye
1985 : Cocoon** : Alma Finley
1987 : Foxfire (TV) : Annie Nations
1987 : Miracle sur la 8ème rue (Batteries not included) * : Faye Riley
1988 : Une femme en péril (The House on Carroll Street) : Miss Venable
1988 : Cocoon, le retour (Cocoon: The Return)** : Alma Finley
1989 : Miss Daisy et son chauffeur (Driving Miss Daisy)*** : Daisy Werthan
1991 : The Story Lady (TV) : Grace McQueen / Granny Goodheart
1991 : Beignets de tomates vertes (Fried Green Tomatoes)*** : Ninny Threadgoode
1992 : Used People : Freida
1993 : To Dance with the White Dog (TV) : Cora Peek
1994 : Camilla : Camilla Cara
1994 : Un homme presque parfait (Nobody's Fool) *** : Miss Beryl Peoples
Théâtre
1947 : A Streetcar Named Desire (Un tramway nommé Désir): Blanche Du Bois
Distinction / Récompenses
1948 : Tony Award comme meilleure actrice pour le premier rôle dans la pièce de Tennessee Williams A Streetcar Named Desire (Un tramway nommé Désir), mise en scène à Broadway par Elia Kazan, où elle incarne Blanche DuBois face à Marlon Brando.
1989 : Oscar de la meilleure actrice dans Miss Daisy et son chauffeur
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